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:... yards;,frori� a .paved�wall R ' submerged in the water.. another -person, investi- Shortreed . who :ovexse.es Sho treed added:
police have had con- ' .
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creek' The Ramsey:, County gators will be diligent in the` depa`tment s inve.at-
with her in vara- 'bed underneath a steep'
Medical `Examiner- is efforts to find out how gations,unYt _._ - Holly. Wenzel
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found .by a,,man, going doesn. t.have-anyone or •Toxicology, tests are Said.
through the park look- anywhere to go to, he still ' pending;Schnell However, many' ones-`
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ing for shed deer ant -said.. says those may shed tions may. remain unan-
lers; Schnell said. The Ramsey County some Eight on why she swered, he said.
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He found body .Medical:' Exa i e h ��
m n. r, who tumbled into the creek , Investigators have,
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and it was ouite obvious' identified the ,woman, and apparently was learned that (Thacker)
Maplewood Police Chief
Paul Schnell aMounced.
at 6:30 p.m, Saturday that'
a woman's body,had been;
found in. a wooded area
near 'Kohlman Creek ears
tier in the day. ,
At approximately 5:20
p.m. that day, Maplewood
police officers were called
Ao ..a wooded area near
Hazelwood and ,team by
a man who found'a dead
body in the creek.. Schnell
Baia.
The woman was- iden-
tified officially Monday
afternoon as Victoria
Whacker DeConwi, 54.
She was also known as -
Victoria Ann Thacker
Conwi.
Whacker reportedly'`
moved from Washing-
ton state to Minnesota
in 2012. Schnell said she
apparently does not have
any relatives in Minnie-'
sota.
"She has no loc`al,
address and is believed _ to
have been homeless for a
period of ' time preceding.
1 her death," Schnell said
in a statement Monday,
afternoon.
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